{"id":13354,"date":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13354"},"modified":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:51:10","slug":"fintech-bridging-usd-2-trillion-small-business-funding-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-bridging-usd-2-trillion-small-business-funding-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTech bridging USD 2 trillion small business funding gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financing for small businesses is lacking throughout the world, even when ample funding is available and ready to be used. To close this USD 2 trillion funding gap, FinTech disruptors have set themselves up to play a key role by stepping in where traditional financial institutions and other investors won\u2019t. This is an important gap to fill as small businesses account for more than half of the world\u2019s GDP and two-thirds of all employment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13354 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Video: the \u2018bank as a platform\u2019 approach'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-the-bank-as-a-platform-approach\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bank-as-a-Platform-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10475\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10475'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: the \u2018bank as a platform\u2019 approach\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='4 keys for financial institutions to keep in mind about the world of open APIs'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/4-keys-for-financial-institutions-to-keep-in-mind-about-the-world-of-open-apis\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/4-keys-for-financial-institutions-to-keep-in-mind-about-the-world-of-open-apis-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13124\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13124'>\n\t\t\t\t4 keys for financial institutions to keep in mind about the world of open APIs\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Gray swans that could disrupt the banking sector'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/gray-swans-that-could-disrupt-the-banking-sector\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gray-swans-that-could-disrupt-the-banking-sector-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14333\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14333'>\n\t\t\t\tGray swans that could disrupt the banking sector\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financing for small businesses is lacking throughout the world, even when ample funding is available and ready to be used. To close this USD 2 trillion funding gap, FinTech disruptors have set themselves up to play a key role by stepping in where traditional financial institutions and other investors won\u2019t. This is an important gap &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[129,141,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13355,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions\/13355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}